Giants limp into final two games, starting with Lions

When it comes to the Giants, there hasn’t been much to root for this season.

It started with six straight losses. Then Big Blue played like a team that can’t wait to pack its bags and flock to warmer climates for the winter after a run in November when the team won four straight.

At 5-9 and assured of its worst year since head coach Tom Coughlin’s first season in the Meadowlands in 2004, the Giants travel to Detroit on Sunday not so much confident they can win but hoping they aren’t humiliated as they were last week against Seattle.

On a weekend when the Giants’ on-field problems continued, safety Will Hill was arrested for non-payment of child support. After twice being suspended for four games duriing each of the last two seasons for violation of the NFL’s substance-abuse policy, Hill, a one-time New Jersey high school legend at St. Peter’s Prep in Jersey City, has been more of a headache for the Mara and Titsch families.

The Giants still took Hill to the Motor City for Sunday’s 4:25 p.m. kickoff against a Lions team that, despite four losses in its last five games, can still win the NFC North title if it stops stumbling over itself.

Hill, who had off-the-field problems during his four seasons at Florida, should be the first Giant let go when general manager Jerry Reese starts his house cleaning next month.

Ironically, this is a day when a good Jersey guy who wants to play, Victor Cruz, can’t because a knee injury suffered against Seattle ended his season only two receiving yards from topping 1,000 for the third season in a row.

Maybe by not dressing Hill the Giants can let their miracle man, Terrell Thomas, continue his road back after two comebacks from ACL tears in both knees.

Thomas’ determination to return to the field from injuries that would have ended the career of less-determined players is about the only positive left in these final two games for the Giants.

So far, Thomas has played in all 14 games — starting five — and has 62 tackles after missing the last two regular seasons.

“This has been a struggle, a real grind,” Thomas said this week. “It’s been the one thing I’ve always counted on. It’s just my faith and just being blessed to play this game again.

“I had been looking forward to the offseason ... so I could actually get ahead and be able to work on football stuff and not just try to get healthy enough to play again. I’m happy I was able to get back soon enough to get on the field this season.”

Thomas is one Giant you want to feel good for.

Hill is one you don’t even want in your locker room. Let’s hope he won’t be there too much longer.